{"id":1656,"date":"2009-08-20T18:39:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-20T18:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2009\/08\/20\/walking-the-walk-has-its-own-perils"},"modified":"2009-08-20T18:39:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-20T18:39:00","slug":"walking-the-walk-has-its-own-perils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=1656","title":{"rendered":"Walking the walk has its own perils"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Sen. John Ensign, Republican of Nevada, said this week that former President Clinton’s affair a decade ago with a White House intern was different from his own transgression in this regard: The president broke the law, Ensign did not.<\/div>\n

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I get that, senator.<\/div>\n

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The GOP-led House impeached Clinton, the Democratic president, ostensibly because he lied under oath to a federal grand jury on whether he had “sexual relations” with Monica Lewinsky. That, according to the House, was an impeachable offense. So, the House acted.<\/div>\n

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Ensign, however, merely had sex with someone other than his wife. He admitted to it, and has thrown himself at the mercy of his wife and the people of Nevada.<\/div>\n

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I get that, too.<\/div>\n

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But here’s a flash: Sen. Ensign has advertised himself as a devout Christian, a Boy Scout, a man of impeccable moral rectitude. Moreover, he was brutally critical of Clinton during his impeachment by the House and his trial in the Senate.<\/div>\n

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When one portrays himself as a paragon of virtue, then he’d better live up to his own pious words.<\/div>\n

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Ensign hasn’t done that. He’s talked the talk, but surely has stubbed his toe while walking down a perilous path.<\/div>\n

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Sen. John Ensign, Republican of Nevada, said this week that former President Clinton’s affair a decade ago with a White House intern was different from his own transgression in this regard: The president broke the law, Ensign did not. I get that, senator. The GOP-led House impeached Clinton, the Democratic president, ostensibly because he lied … Continue reading Walking the walk has its own perils<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}